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The project is an animated 3D scene with a model of the Solar System.

• 🎮 First-person camera control with acceleration and zoom capabilities
• 🖼️ High resolution textures (8K+) withdds extension
• 🖼️ Photoshop-processed skybox with high resolution textures (6K)
• 💡 High-quality shaders
• 💡 Blinn–Fong reflection model with normal maps to visualise surface irregularities
• 💡 Accurate atmospheric scattering of planets and satellites
• 💡 Mie scattering and accurate shadows for planetary rings
• 💡 High-quality soft shadows using PCF and ray tracing
• 💡 Omnidirectional shadow maps simulation when using a single unidirectional shadow map
• 💡 Shadows from the clouds
• 💡 Lens flare
• 🎵 Background music
• ⚙️ A simple graphical user interface with all the information the user needs and formanaging a small set of parameters (music volume, time control, planet and satellite hintscontrol, sun parameters, etc.)
• ⚙️ Using 3D models withobj extension for planets, satellites, planetary rings, etc.

• C++17
• OpenGL 4.6
• GLFW
• GLEW
• SDL2 andSDL2_image
• Assimp
• FreeType
• irrKlang

Run an auxiliary script from the command line to automatically run the necessarycmakecommands using the.\build.sh command, while in the directory with the rootCMakeLists.txt file(the root project folder). Then an exe file with all necessary dlls will appear in thebuild folder.

Due to virtual memory limitations (mainly if the executable file is compiled with a 32-bitcompiler and uses 32-bit libraries, as in my case), abad_alloc exception may be thrown whenlaunching the entire Solar System at once (with all planets, satellites, etc.).

If you want to see all the beauties of the Solar System in person,download the archive and run theexecutables I've specially prepared for you.

More screenshots and video snippets can be seenhere.